June 24th, 2008
So, about a month ago I forgot to pay GoDaddy to renew the hosting for SnyderBlogs.com and three of my other sites so they took us down. I’ve been spending my free time this past month trying to scrounge up the data I lost from every place I could think of, like feed reading programs and the waybackmachine. I only lost one post and some images so I think I pretty well.
Me and Jon will be posting again on a regular basis. We may add another author to this site quite soon so look for their first post.
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May 24th, 2008
With
Specto (linux only) you can now get notifications at anytime on your computer of webpages, email, file and folder changes, system process etc. For example this can be very helpful if you need to watch a page, say for homework that your teacher puts up, yet he does not provide a feed link. Instead of checking the site everyday for anything new, I can just wait till Specto tell’s me there’s something new or changed there. Specto is small, simple, and a must have if you want your computer to work for you, not the other way around.
To install specto for Ubuntu simply go to your terminal and type in:
sudo apt-get install specto
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May 24th, 2008
This python script (created by noflashlight.com ) gives you the power to track your pizza order from its beginning as cheese and dough all the way till it comes to your door. So now you know when how long it sits under the heat lamp between the time it comes out of the oven till when the driver leaves Dominoes. Visit http://random.noflashlight.com/ for the download or follow the steps below:
- Make sure you have python installed on your computer.
- Open your handy dandy terminal.
- Use wget to download the python script:
wget http://random.noflashlight.com/scripts/dominos.py
- Make the code you just downloaded executable:
chmod +x dominos.py
- Call Dominoes and order your pizza.
- Execute the script replacing ######### with your phone number:
./dominos.py ##########
- Re run the script every once in a while to update the status of your pizza.
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May 13th, 2008
It seems that my age group (I’m 19) fell between the cracks. If your under 17 your parents get a $300 addition on their rebate check…okay…. But because I’m over 17 and filled out a tax return, where I made over 3k, but i was also claimed on my parent’s as a dependent (i still live at home, go to school, but hold a job) neither me nor my parents get a check. It took me 2 hours of reading to figure this out.
If Bush’s plan was to “stimulate” the economy with these checks, Why would he leave out this huge college aged group, Isn’t this demographic most likely to spurge it on consumer goods?
Just a thought.
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May 13th, 2008
Maybe you are like me and was curious about Linspire’s Click-n-Run (CNR) software that allowed you to “easily” install programs in Linux. So you installed it, like I did, and found it to be such a pain to use and all it did was mirror the Add/Remove… which is included within Ubuntu.
To remove CNR:
sudo apt-get remove cnr-client
If you are interested in installing software that is not included within Add/Remove… try www.getdeb.net. GetDeb allows you to download self installing deb files of many programs.
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